hyper-

excessive, above normal

hypo-

under or below

peri-

around

tachy-

fast

-Crasia

A mixture or blending

-Emia

Blood condition

-ectomy 

surgical removal

-graphy

process of recording

-itis

inflammation

-lysis

destruction,breakdown

-megaly

enlargement 

-osis

abnormal condition

-penia

• Meaning: Deficiency

-plasty

 Surgical repair

-rrhage

 Bursting forth, excessive flow

-stasis

 Stopping, controlling

-cytosis

 Condition of cells

angi/o

: Vessel (usually blood or lymph)

aort/o

: Aorta

arteri/o

Artery

ather/o

 Fatty plaque

capillar/o

 Capillaries 

cardi/o

 Heart

chrom/o, chromat/o

Color

erythr/o

: Red

hem/o, hemat/o

 Blood

isch/o

 Restriction, deficiency

leuk/o

 White

my/o

 Muscle

phleb/o

: Vein

scler/o

 Hardening

sten/o

Narrowing

thromb/o

: Clot

vaulvul/o

 Valve

vas/o

Vessel

ven/o

Vein

a-

 Without

an-

Without, not

dys-

 Difficult, painful, abnormal

hemi-

 Half

hyper-

Excessive, above normal

in-

 Not, inward

inter-

 Between

intra-

 Within, inside

pan-

 All, entire

para-

 Beside, abnormal

poly-

 Many

post-

 After

pre-

 Before

sub-

 Under, below

-algia

 Pain

-cele

 Hernia, swelling

-cyte

 Cell

-ectomy

Surgical removal

-genic

Producing, originating, or causing

-gram

 Record or image

-graph

 Instrument used to record

-graphy

 Process of recording

-iatrist

Specialist in treatment

-iatry

 Field of medicine, treatment

-lepsy

 Seizure

-logist

 Specialist in a field of study

-malacia

 Abnormal softening

-mania

 Madness or excessive preoccupation

-oid

 Resembling or like

-oma

 Tumor, swelling

-pathy

 Disease

-phobia

 Fear

-rrhaphy

Suturing or stitching

-tomy

 Cutting or surgical incision

-tropic

 Having an affinity for, influencing

alges/o

: Sensitivity to pain

cephal/o

Head

cerebr/o

 Brain, cerebrum

concuss/o

 To shake violently

crani/o

Skull

dur/o

 Dura mater 

encephal/o

Brain

esthesi/o

 Sensation, feeling

gangli/o, ganglion/o

 Ganglion

hydr/o

 Water, fluid

lob/o

 Lobe

ment/o

Mind, chin

mening/o, meningi/o

 Meninges

mon/o

 One, single

myel/o

 Spinal cord, bone marrow

neur/o, neur/i

 Nerve

phas/o

Speech

poli/o

 Gray matter

pont/o

 Pons

psych/o

 Mind

radic/o, radicul/o, rhiz/o

 Nerve root

vag/o

 Vagus nerve